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TIL: When it comes to child support, the percentage of “deadbeat” moms is actually higher than that of dads who won’t pay.

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8mkK TIL that the retinas of Robins contains Cryptochrome, a protein which allows them to see magnetic fields. The magnetic fields are visualised as patterns of light and shade and perhaps colour, onto the visual imagery.
VMMZD It depends on how well you want your brain to work
bLa7 TIL Carl Sagan sued Apple Computer in 1995. Apple used ‘Carl Sagan’ as an internal code for the Power Macintosh 7100. After a cease-and-desist letter, Apple renamed it 'BHA’, for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued. Apple then changed the name to “LAW”, short for “Lawyers are Wimps”.
bLxp TIL While governor of Chukotka from 2000-2008, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich spent over US$1.3 billion of his own money on the region.
v1Baj TIL An Ancient Greek philosopher was exiled for claiming the moon was a rock, not a god.